Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
听力原文: We all know that it is possible for ordinary people to make their homes on the equator, although often they may feel uncomfortably hot there. Millions do it. But as for the North Pole, we know that it is not only a dangerously cold place, but that people like you and me would find it quite impossible to live there. At the present time only the scientists and explorers can do so, and they use special equipment. Men have been traveling across and around the equator on wheels, on their feet or in ships for thousands of years; but only a few men, with great difficulty and in very recent time, have ever crossed the ice to the North Pole. So it may surprise you to learn that, when traveling by air, it is really safer to fly over the North Pole than over the equator. Of course, this is not true about landings in the polar region(which passenger airplane do not make), but the weather, if we are flying at a height of 5,000 meters above the Pole, is a delight. At 4,000 meters and more above the earth you can always be sure that you will not see a cloud in the sky as far as the eye can reach. In the tropics, on the other hand, you are not certain to keep clear of bad weather even at such heights as 18,000 or 20,000 metres.
Aeroplane can't climb as high or as quickly in cold air as in warm. Nor can clouds. In practice, this is an advantage to the aero plane, which is already at a good height when it reaches the polar region and so does not need to climb, while at the same time cold air keeps the clouds down low.
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A. It is a good place to land at by aeroplane.
B. It is a good place to fly over.
C. It is a good place to travel to by land.
D. It is a good place to live at.
A.In a shipping company office.B.In Professor Benson's office.C.In a publisher's offic
A. In a shipping company office.
B. In Professor Benson's office.
C. In a publisher's office.
D. In a university store.
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.
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A. He me all the food.
B. lie cleaned the refrigerator.
C. He worked day and night.
D. lie had a big lunch.
听力原文:M: Hey, Karen. Looks like you got some sun this weekend.
W: Yeah, I guess so. I spent the weekend at the beach.
M: Oh yeah? That's great! Where did you stay?
W: Some friends of my parents live out there and they invited me for as long as I wanted to stay.
M: So what are you doing back here already?
W: Oh, I have a paper I need to work on, and I just couldn't do any serious studying at the beach.
M: I don't blame you. So what did you do out there...I mean besides lie out in the sun, obviously?
W: I jogged up and down the beach and t played some volleyball. You know, I never realized how hard it is to run on sand. I couldn't even get through a whole game before I had to sit down. It's much easier to run in the wet sand near the water.
M: Not to mention cooler. Did you go swimming?
W: I wanted to, but they said the water isn't warm enough for that until a couple months from now, so I just waded in up to my knees.
M: It all sounds so relaxing, I wish I could get away to the beach like that.
W: It looks like you could use it. Don't tell me you spent the week end in the library again.
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A. Relaxing at the seashore.
B. Visiting her parents.
C. Sailing on a boat.
D. Preparing for a race.